14-02-2017 12:54 via theguardian.com

Erdoğan v free speech: how does it feel to live in Turkey right now?

From imprisoned journalists to the forthcoming referendum, tell us how the current climate is affecting you Turkey, once held up as an exemplar of secular democracy in the Muslim world, is now the world’s biggest prison for journalists. Since he came to power in 2014, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slowly tightened his grip on freedom of expression, choking his critics.Editors of national newspapers now face life sentences for working “against the state”. People have b
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